Today’s Writer’s Digest poem-a-day writing prompt was to use the name of a painter as your title.
Blue Sky
All the times we were in Columbia
for football games
or driving through
from one side of the state to the other
we never made the effort to show you
at the corner of Taylor and Marion streets
Tunnel Vision
artist Blue Sky’s trompe l’oeil mural
covering the entire side of the old Ag First Building
a passage blasted through rock
to a brilliant sun setting over the ocean
neon-powered, glowing
You would have liked
the incongruity
of a tunnel to the sea
through the middle of a building
in a landlocked city.
We thought there’d be time.